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(February 24, 2015) Eighty men and women with expertise in national security have signed an open letter to House and Senate leaders to end the spending limits required by the Budget Control Act and adequately fund the military so it can address threats around the globe.
Former... Read more

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(February 18, 2015) The head of the Department of Veterans Affairs wants flexibility in how he can use $10 billion marked for the Choice Card program, which allows qualified veterans to seek health care from providers outside the VA.
Secretary Robert McDonald said only 27,000... Read more

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(February 18, 2015) The Department of Veterans Affairs has hundreds of facilities that are underutilized or not being used at all, the VA secretary told lawmakers last week, and he wants to close them. Secretary Robert McDonald told the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs that... Read more

By Rebecca Autrey
February 12, 2015
The chairman of the House Appropriations Committee said he’ll continue to fight for adequate funding of National Guard priorities during remarks at NGAUS headquarters Tuesday.
Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky., addressed the issue at the 2015 Legislative Liaison Workshop.... Read more

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(February 10, 2015) A commission's recommendation that TRICARE be abolished in favor of a system that offers more choice was questioned last week by Democrats on the House Armed Services Committee. The Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission included the... Read more

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(February 10, 2015) A panel of government affairs strategists told National Guard legislative liaisons today that open lines of communication with congressional staff members are critical for success.
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Their... Read more

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(February 10, 2015) Two members of the House, including a member of the Hawaii Army National Guard, have told their colleagues that sequestration is hurting military readiness and called for the automatic budget cuts to be lifted from defense spending.
"We believe alleviating the... Read more

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(February 10, 2015) A current National Guardsman has joined a retired one to lead the House National Guard and Reserve Caucus. Rep. Steven Palazzo, R-Miss., was named last week to join Rep. Tim Walz, D-Minn., as co-chairmen of the group.
Palazzo, who is an enlisted member of the... Read more

The National Guard continues to have the highest reported rate of suicides in the military.
The 2013 Defense Department Suicide Event Annual Report released last month said that rates of suicides for the National Guard and Reserve components were 28.9 and 23.4 per 100,000, respectively.
And due... Read more

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(February 3, 2015) The Air Force will try again to remove the A-10 Thunderbolt II from its arsenal. In the president's budget released Monday, the service makes the same attempt it did last year to retire the aircraft, but, as happened last year, some members of Congress plan to... Read more